Hi All,
I had an issue. Manually installing Centos 6 everything worked X11 came up with nvidia binary drivers. Cool. However, I am working on a kickstart install for Centos 6 and that was not working. When I started X it would hang. no mouse no keyboard. however , remote ssh was available and worked.
Thinking I had some serious bug in nvidia binary was my thought - but I kept looking. I saw this error:
(EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
in the X log file.
I continued to look and sure enough hald was installed but not running. I did service haldaemon stop and it said FAILED as expected, then service haldaemon start and it started up. Curious....
chkconfig --list | grep hal reports haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
So thats the reason of course, it was not set to start. Question is why????
certainly I can put in my kickstart post script to change chkconfig but why is it not set to start????
Thanks for any insite.
Jerry